{"id":103840,"date":"2022-07-01T02:48:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T06:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=103840"},"modified":"2023-06-02T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T18:51:58","slug":"how-does-the-community-react-to-an-organization-who-helps-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/how-does-the-community-react-to-an-organization-who-helps-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelter says local unhoused community demographic changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the pandemic, Abbotsford shelter 5 and 2 says that the unhoused community has grown and the demographic is shifting.<\/p>\n<p>\"The amount of South Asians impacted by homelessness has definitely increased over the years but not significantly,\" Ward Draper, executive director of 5 and 2, says. \"It's been a slower thing.\"<\/p>\n<p>Homelessness affects at least <a href=\"https:\/\/reviewlution.ca\/resources\/homelessness-in-canada\/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20there%20were%20more,about%201%25%20of%20the%20population.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">235,000 people<\/a> across Canada and that number is growing.\u00a0Draper adds that despite the shelter's challenges meeting the unhoused community's needs, many Abbotsford residents have come together to help the non-profit.<\/p>\n<p>\"Over the years, our relationship with the larger body of Abbotsford has definitely improved which has made it easier to do some things to have better conversations,\" Draper says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the pandemic, Abbotsford shelter 5 and 2 says that the unhoused community has grown and the demographic is shifting. &#8220;The amount of South Asians impacted by homelessness has definitely increased over the years but not significantly,&#8221; Ward Draper, executive director of 5 and 2, says. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a slower thing.&#8221; Homelessness affects at least&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":103842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,21655],"tags":[1739,16330,7614,16331,16329],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157840,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103840\/revisions\/157840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103840"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=103840"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=103840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}